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"Fleur-de-Mai" 1945
From: The Quebec Anthology
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Long considered one of Quebec’s most important poets—a special issue of the literary magazine Liberté was devoted to his work in 1960—Grandbois also distinguished himself as a writer of short stories. Avant le chaos, published in 1945, is widely regarded as one of the first hints of Quebec’s emergence into the harsh, realistic light of the modern. "Fleur-de-Mai," translated here by Matt Cohen, has been taken from that collection, and was also included in Adrien Thério’s influential anthology Conteurs canadiens-français (1965). A work of great poetic intensity and psychological insight, it is one Grandbois’s most original and exotic works.
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Alain Grandbois
Alain Grandbois was born in Saint-Casimir de Portneuf on May 25, 1900, and was educated at the Collège de Montréal and the Séminaire de Québec, and later at Saint Dunstan University in Charlottetown. He took a law degree at Université Laval in 1921. An inheritance allowed him to travel and, using Paris as a base—he lived in Montparnasse at the same time as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Morley Callaghan, and other celebrated exiles—he travelled in Italy, Spain (where he fought in the Republican Army),
